4. Sending and receiving short messages

Vodafone Mobile Connect Card Driver for Linux will allow you to send and receive short messages (SMS) from your computer. Under the menu- and iconbars, you will find the SMS and addressbook bar, including the buttons New, Reply, Forward and Delete.

Buttons to send and manage short messages

In order to write a short message, choose New->SMS, or press the key combination Ctrl-N. A new window will popup, where you will be able to type in the telephone number you want to send the short message to, as well as the text itself. The phone number must be introduced using the international format, such as +45670123456, where 45 is the country code. You can select as well any number stored in your addressbook.

Composing a short message

The statusbar shows the amount of characters written so far. Short messages have a limit of 160 latin characters, or 70 UCS2 characters (used to write in some languages such as Chinese). In order to send your message, press the botton Accept. If you want to delay sending or composing the message, you can store it in Drafts by pressing the button Save.

Under the buttons bar, there is other bar with some tabs labeled Inbox, Drafts, Outbox and Contacts.

Received messages are stored in the Inbox. They can be sorted by reception date, sender or subject. When selecting a message, its contents will be shown under the list of messages.

Viewing a message

In order to delete a message, select it and press the button Delete. To reply or forward a message, use the buttons Reply and Forward.

The tabs Drafts and Sent work exactly the same way, and as their names tell, contain the delayed and already sent messages.

4.1. Addressbook

The Contacts tab lists the contents of your addressbook. To add a new contact, choose Contacts->New, and type in the name and phone number of that person. Specify as well whether you wish to save that information in your computer's hard disk or in your SIM card's memory.

If you want to add the sender of a message to your addressbook, just press with your mouse right button on that message, and choose Use detail->Add to contacts in the popup menu.

Adding a contact

Contacts can also be imported and exported using .csv files (comma-separated values) from the File menu.

In order to find one of the stored contacts, choose Contacts->Find and enter his name. To edit a contact, select it and press with your mouse left button on the field you want to modify. To delete a contact, select it and press the Borrar button.